The following proposal was consented to by Occupy Boston’s General Assembly on Thursday, October 20:
The Facilitators Working Group (FWG) proposes, starting on Sunday, October 23, that Occupy Boston move to a schedule of conducting General Assembly (GA) on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 7 pm to 10 pm, as well as in the case of emergencies.
The FWG proposes that all working groups hold at least one publicly accessible, weekly meeting (except Legal Working Group, whose meetings are necessarily confidential). The day, time, and place of the meeting is to be posted on the Occupy Boston website and made available to both the Info Tent and the Media Tent scheduling board. The meeting will be facilitated as a horizontal democracy using a consensus decision-making process. During the non-GA evenings, there will be facilitated discussions and debates starting at 7 pm on issues that interest the Occupy Boston community. Topics for these non-GA nights should be proposed in advance by individuals or working groups during General Assembly.
The FWG offers its services to all working groups who wish to be trained in a consensus process, and, if needed, can help working groups with the facilitation of their first scheduled public meeting.
19 Responses to “New General Assembly Schedule Consented To on Thursday, October 20”
“The New General Assembly will tell you what to do, comrade! We are the self-appointed leaders of the revolution! You will obey!”
lol fascists. Keep marching to that drumbeat…all the way to Dachau.
Funny, yet startling innacurate. Your biased against other forms of govt is showing. I suggest you open your eyes and stop believing what they would have you believe.
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Clearly you are prejudice against communism. You may want to re evaluate your position.
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Communism is the most credible solution to our current problems.
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End capitalism NOW. Explore the basic alternative of COMMUNISM.
next to zero percent chance of that happening.
Why not realize that in order to change the system, you must work WITH the system.
It can happen.
You just don’t get it, do you. It’s people coming together voluntarily, to discuss issues and make collective decisions to build a movement toward greater democracy. The whole spirit is inclusiveness, everyone’s voice counts, and any decisions must be generally agreed to by all. A lot of consensus is found, because generally people have similar ideas about what they want and how to do it. It’s all voluntary, and constructive, and nobody claims any authority to tell others what to do outside of the movement.
There are some resolutions, like “We are a nonviolent movement so don’t commit violence in the name of Occupy Boston” and others like “Let’s not smoke in the park. If you must smoke then go to the sidewalk to respect everyone’s desire for clean air.”
The entire point is greater democracy. Does that sound like fascism to you? This movement is a pretty fierce anti-fascist crowd. Your participation is voluntary.
Sage, I particularly like that resolution, “We are a non-violent movement so don’t commit violence in the name of Occupy Boston.” If Occupy Boston has actually published that somewhere, I can’t find it. They should.
I kept waiting over the weekend for Occupy to publish a condemnation of ‘Anonymous’s’ cyber attack on the BPD. Imagine my disappointment when I read last night in the Herald and at UPI that Occupy Boston Media said that they wouldn’t criticize Anonymous for fear that their own emails would be hacked! I guess that means that the morally courageous non-violence stance is contingent on the Media Group not being inconvenienced.??
Today I’m waiting for Occupy to say that they weren’t involved in, nor do they support, the graffiti vandalism that occoured over the weekend. I’m not holding my breath, though.
Like it or not, Occupy, when you don’t denounce these kinds of things you are seen as tacitly in support of them. If you choose to align yourselves with anarchy instead of constructive, positive change, you are going to lose all support.
Hi Paul. I think it would be a good thing to find out for sure. I will work on it. I heard that the GA agreed on more than one occasion to be a nonviolent movement. I heard this in discussions regarding the hacking incident, about which I have been strongly suggesting putting out a simple statement saying is was not Occupy Boston and it’s not a tactic that we’d use. There has been a lot of discussion. I hope to be more present at GA’s and at the camp in general, to talk with people in person. Regarding the Herald story, I assume that they talked to someone and reported what they said. That is not the position of Occupy Boston as a whole, though it comes across that way due to the way the story was written. I think this movement has more to learn about managing public perception, but it is a long conversation and people have differing points of view… as it should be.
Whorefinder Your back. I really missed you. Have you no new insults. Or anything new at all. Those comrade and fascist statements are a laugh but they’re getting a bit worn. the smelly hippie ones were at least more accurate but still a bit broad brush. Do you only come here when you dont find one?
I would like to apologize for all my pointlessly hateful and angry comments here these last few weeks. I have some problems and stopped taking my medication. I am very, very sorry.
If this is really you, then kudos for having the guts to say this and apologize.
At 7am I watched as eight cops showed up to pappas way in south Boston to “investigate” a drunk citizen. The national guard was going to be called but he didn’t resist. And people complain about the police details in Dewey square. Lmao
“The FWG proposes that all Working Groups hold at least one publicly accessible, weekly meeting — except Legal WG, whose meetings are necessarily confidential”
If this is their attitude, then this is probably the one group that we need to demand hold one open weekly meeting. They can sit there and take the fifth if they want, but at least we will get a chance to get a look at them.
Can someone look through what the David Horowitz website has compiled on the National Lawyers Guild and figure what is true? (This website is indispensable but they will flat out lie.) http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6162
My wife’s mother tells us she was Castro’s secretary back when he was a divorce lawyer. Be very careful with these people.
Castro said your wifes mother was a rubbish secretary. What’s your point? Why are you bringing Cuba into this anyway? They have enough problems of their own what with US foreign & economic policy wreaking havoc on them.
I brought up Castro to point out that he started out as a lawyer. My point is that we need to be very careful. We need to investigate the National Lawyers Guild and expect them to answer our questions and hold them accountable. And I don’t see any legitimate need for the Legal Working Group to conceal its goings on.
The Occupy movements are enamored with the idea that the United States is a democracy; it is not. The United States is a constitutional republic and representative democracy, in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law.
I think the Occupy movements are enamored with the idea of *making* the United States a democracy.
The united states is neither a republic nor a democracy. That is the facade that you are presented with by the media. In reality corporate money rules the USA. It is close to becoming a fascist state if not already. The alarm bells are ringing all around the world. Hopefully the people can remove the cancer before it becomes terminal for the whole world.
Exactly!